James 5 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹ 0 Take, my brethren, for an example of suffering evil, of labour and patience, the prophets, who spoke in the name of the Lord.

² 1 Behold, we account them blessed who have endured. You have heard of the patience of Job, and you have seen the end of the Lord, that the Lord is merciful and compassionate.

³ 2 But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath. But let your speech be, yea, yea: no, no: that you fall not under judgment.

⁴ 3 Is any of you sad? Let him pray. Is he cheerful in mind? Let him sing.

⁵ 4 Is any man sick among you? Let him bring in the priests of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.

⁶ 5 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick man: and the Lord shall raise him up: and if he be in sins, they shall be forgiven him.

⁷ 6 Confess therefore your sins one to another: and pray one for another, that you may be saved. For the continual prayer of a just man availeth much.

⁸ 7 Elias was a man passible like unto us: and with prayer he prayed that it might not rain upon the earth, and it rained not for three years and six months.

⁹ 8 And he prayed again: and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.

¹⁰ 9 My brethren, if any of you err from the truth, and one convert him:

¹¹ 0 He must know that he who causeth a sinner to be converted from the error of his way, shall save his soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins.

¹² Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers dispersed through Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, elect,

¹³ According to the foreknowledge of God the Father, unto the sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you and peace be multiplied.

¹⁴ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy hath regenerated us unto a lively hope, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

¹⁵ Unto an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that can not fade, reserved in heaven for you,

¹⁶ Who, by the power of God, are kept by faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time.

¹⁷ Wherein you shall greatly rejoice, if now you must be for a little time made sorrowful in divers temptations:

¹⁸ That the trial of your faith (much more precious than gold which is tried by the fire) may be found unto praise and glory and honour at the appearing of Jesus Christ:

¹⁹ Whom having not seen, you love: in whom also now, though you see him not, you believe: and believing shall rejoice with joy unspeakable and glorified;

²⁰ Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.